The traditional prosecutor in office, Todd Blanche promised the National Rifle Association (NRA) greater action to defend and protect gun rights under the Second Amendment, despite mass shootings over the weekend that left 32 people dead or injured.
“First, the things we did last year, since President Trump took office and signed the executive order on January 20, basically telling this administration and the American people that the Second Amendment was going to be a priority and defending it was going to be a priority“Blanche expressed on the podcast of Steve Bannon, former political advisor to President Donald Trump.
In the interview conducted from the NRA Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, the traditional prosecutor said that the new actions will occur in the coming days due to the weapons.
“In a matter of days, not weeks, not months, in a matter of days, you will see the measures that we have been working on for a year being implemented, and that, hopefully, will fundamentally change the way our industry should be traditional forever,” he explained without offering details of the new initiatives.
President Trump’s administration has not commented on the shootings that occurred over the weekendincluding an act of domestic violence where a father in Shreveport, Louisiana killed eight children.
The NRA has not responded to an official request from this newspaper either. about that and other facts.
The Gun Violence Archive, which records violent events involving firearms, “mass shootings are, for the most part, an American phenomenon” and highlights that they can be in public places, incidents in bars and clubs, family annihilations, drive-by shootings, incidents in the workplace.
To consider a violent action as a mass shooting, there must be “a minimum of four victims injured or killed by gunshots, not including the shooter.” Such a description can include the attack in Shreveport, where it was indicated that the father who carried out the shooting suffered from mental problems.
So far in 2026, 117 mass shootings have been recorded, including those over the weekend, according to the GVA.
These attacks have left at least 66 children dead and another 125 injured, in addition to 243 teenagers dead and 708 injured.
GIFFORDS criticizes the NRA for its silence
The weekend, The NRA held its Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, where the Second Amendment was defendedbut the GIFFORDS organization, which seeks greater sustainability in the sale of weapons, criticized the fact that the events that left 32 fatalities or injuries in the country were not addressed.
“While NRA leaders toasted their defense of the gun industry from the floor of a convention center, the organization’s extremist agenda is fueling gun crime in communities across the country,” said Emma Brown, executive director of GIFFORDS.
In addition to the attack in Shreveport, which occurred on Sunday, April 18, five people, including two minors, were injured in a shooting in southwest Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday.
Another incident occurred in Sacramento, where four people were injured in Howe Park.k, while early Sunday morning, a man was killed in a shooting at the Par 4 bar and restaurant in Temperanceville, Virginia, where five other people were injured, the organization said, citing other violent events.
“Five people, including three students, were injured in a mass shooting near the University of Iowa campus,” it said. “In San Antonio, a 24-year-old man was killed and another was wounded in shootings that police say are related. According to Chicago police, ten people were injured in shootings that occurred in the city between Friday and Sunday morning.”
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